Uproar is set in New Zealand in 1981, when the arrival of the South African rugby team sets off nationwide protests against apartheid and racism. Stars Julian Dennison from Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - Chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga.
00:04 - Big black engine coming through.
00:07 - Josh, I've started an amateur drama club at lunchtime.
00:10 Well, there's four of us, so it's not big, but still.
00:13 - Why are you asking me?
00:17 - I just thought it might be something you'd enjoy.
00:18 - Five things, five things, five things, five things.
00:22 Food.
00:23 - Bread.
00:26 - Yes.
00:28 - I think you should coach the team.
00:30 - A homo.
00:32 - Was that a question or a statement?
00:34 - What?
00:35 - You know, was it a question like, am I a homo?
00:37 Or was it a statement like, you're a homo?
00:39 - Performing arts sounds like a secure career move.
00:43 - Madigan says I'm a good actor.
00:45 - Oh, does he?
00:46 - And you are not crap, Josh.
00:49 - Whoa.
00:50 - Any behavior that threatens our ideal
00:53 will not be tolerated.
00:55 - Prambo, come join us.
00:57 - I'm not really much more of a sitter.
01:00 - You can't be like that.
01:03 Out here is the real world.
01:04 It's different, so you've gotta be different.
01:07 - I didn't know all that about your people.
01:11 - Darling, they're your people too.
01:13 - Know how to work that thing?
01:15 - Yeah, I think so.
01:24 - Joshua chose to disobey my instructions.
01:27 - You nearly sabotage everything.
01:29 - We were protesting.
01:30 - I told you, you get expelled from school.
01:31 - I hate that school.
01:32 I'm a Maori surrounded by white kids.
01:37 You don't know what it feels like to not fit in.
01:40 - It's hard and you can't do anything that makes you you.
01:46 - You got one job, love.
01:47 You do whatever I need you to do
01:48 to keep this family together.
01:50 - We have the whole world watching us right now
01:54 and we can't waste this moment.
01:55 - Josh is a really tricky kid to get to know.
01:57 It's when he's performing that we get the best insight
02:00 as to who he really is.
02:01 - We all have our stories.
02:12 - They're not there to pull us down.
02:14 They're there to push us forward.
02:16 - You know this way's faster, right?
02:21 - I think I've ruptured my gluteus maximus.
02:24 - It is impossible to rupture your ass.
02:26 (upbeat music)
02:30 (grunts)
02:31 (upbeat music)
02:33 (upbeat music)
02:36 (upbeat music)
02:39 (upbeat music)
02:41 [BLANK_AUDIO]